Insulting Quotes

It can be insulting to an actor when the director comes out, and they have no notes on the performance, and all they care about is that the camera has to do this one technical thing.

The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.

I remember when I was younger and seeing guys like The Rock cut these promos telling the world how terrible they are. How they are a bunch of losers and stuff like that. He was so funny when he did it that you couldn’t wait ’til he came out and started insulting you.

For myself and the Players Coalition, it was never about the money or having our voices bought. To hear people call me or anyone else a sell-out is insulting. It has always been, and will always be, about lifting the voices of the people and the work of those that fight for them.

When we’re the victims of insulting language and attacks, it’s obviously going to evoke a response.

Insulting people doesn’t make you brave, bold, cool or courageous.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Flats are being sold for 1 lakh per square feet even though the poor can’t even afford one meal in the day. It’s an inhuman and insulting display of wealth, and I wanted my movie’s title, ‘City of Gold,’ as well as the title song to reflect that.

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don’t think your work is quite as universal.

Is Trump correct that we should stop the flow of illegal immigrants? Yes, but again, words matter, and there is a way to engage voters on this issue without creating fear and insulting many hard-working Hispanics who love this country.

I don’t share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region – that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.

Why don’t men become primary teachers? Partly, I suppose, because the pay is so insulting; but then it is for all teachers, as the state seems to consider the manufacture of adults less important than the manufacture of just about anything else.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

I’m always concerned that I’m insulting the elder statesmen on the set by my crass behavior.

To claim that ISIS is Islamic is egregiously inaccurate and empirically unsustainable, not to mention insulting to the 1.6 billion non-violent adherents of Islam across the planet.

Something like ‘Sex And The City’ was insulting – women all clawing on to their youth when there’s such ripe territory in honestly exploring women’s lives as they get older.

While Donald Trump is busy insulting one group after another, Hillary Clinton understands that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths. Yes. We become stronger when black and white, Latino, Asian-American, Native American – when all of us stand together.

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early ’50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

I’ve stopped reading about the death of books because it’s wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

I am a simple man who comes from a village, and villagers like us speak our mind. Now, in the process, if unknowingly my words came across as disrespectful or insulting, then I am deeply sorry. I don’t want to hurt anyone.

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

Somebody saying something offensive to you or insulting to you is not pleasant, but it’s part of life.

Insult is in the ear of the listener. Statements of fact cannot be insulting unless you feel that the label applied indicates some failing, moral or otherwise, in yourself.

To compare the United States of America – the beacon of the free world – to the brutal North Korean dictatorship is as insulting as it is asinine.

I think it’s insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

In England, I’m already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I’m not a rock photographer at all.

I make sure not to do anything which can be insulting for women- something very common in Punjabi films.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it’s funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something’s funny and you’re the subject of it, sometimes it’s more offensive. If someone’s insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of ‘spreading propaganda against the system,’ ‘insulting members of the parliament through paintings’ and ‘insulting the Supreme Leader’ with her cartoon.

You can call double-eyelid surgery wrong or see it as evidence of body dysmorphia, but don’t overplay the race issue. It’s insulting to those of us who are merely vain.

In the end, I do think it’s insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

Empathy is why entertainment is always growing, and for millennials, everyone is judging them and trying to grab their attention by insulting them. We’re living in a time where everyone has 25 profiles, and they’re having 25 conversations.

People will come up and say – and it is insulting – ‘Do you ever want to do anything else? Like some real acting? Or a real show?’ Here’s the thing: You can either get upset about that, or you can realize that that person isn’t trying to offend you. They’re literally interested, and they’re asking you a question.

To suggest the President of the United States and the head of the free world – the man who is changing the world – is being manipulated by Mitch McConnell is insulting to the president; it’s absolutely insulting.

This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there’s a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas – because they simply don’t know about its existence or they don’t know how it operates.

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

I’ve found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It’s sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.

Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.

It was only by luck and the blessings of God that my soldiers did not encounter an assault, that we did not run over an IED. And to dishonor our service by saying we’re not worthy of being called combat veterans is insulting to the majority of men and women who serve their country honorably.

Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn’t learned to be civil – note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.

Muhammad Ali was the one who started it, winding up his opponents, but he always did it with a twinkle in his eye and a bit of class about him. Mayweather is just insulting from start to finish.

I’m not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to play. It feels insulting to the musicians to me.

If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don’t take it personally.

I’m not insulting Trump supporters; I’m calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives.

As a woman, I’d be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general.

No one except Hollywood stars and very rich Texans wore Indian jewelry. And there was a plethora of dozens if not hundreds of athletic teams that in essence were insulting us, from grade schools to college. That’s all changed.

‘Honesty’ in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you’re talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.

I know how a cinematographer wants to be treated by their director, and so I already have a leg up in that department, and I know what would be insulting to say to a DP because I’ve been one for so long.

Instead of insulting our teachers and tearing down public education, I believe in a Kentucky where we put students and teachers first – and I’ll work to do just that by fixing some of the greatest challenges they face every day.

We had to cope with the media writing things which were not true, which were insulting. At around 13 I decided I was just not going to pay attention.

I was a very bad student. I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn’t want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.